Motta, Giovanni (gm2554)

Giovanni Motta

Full Time Lecturer - Applied Statistics

Office Location:

525 West 120th St

Educational Background

PhD in Statistics, Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium

Master of Science in Econometrics, Université catholique de Louvain


Scholarly Interests

High-dimensional Time Series, Non-parametric Smoothing, Dimension Reduction

Selected Publications



August 2014. Honorable mention Article of the Year Award, Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication.

Evolutionary Correspondence Analysis of the Semantic Dynamics of Frames

08/25/2022  The 24th International Conference on Computational Statistics (COMPSTAT-2022, Bologna, Italy).


sqrt2-estimation for Smooth Eigenvectors

06/08/2023 Invited speaker, International Workshop on Applied Probability (IWAP-2023, Thessaloniki, Greece). 

06/29/2022  Weekly Seminar organized by the Institute of Statistics and Mathematical Methods in Economics, Vienna University of Technology. Inviting Prof. Manfred Deistler (Vienna, Austria).

06/21/2022  International Symposium on Nonparametric Statistics (ISNPS-2022 Paphos, Cyprus). Invited session orgainzed by Prof. Enno Mammen (Heidlberg, Germany).

09/13/2021  Weekly Seminar of the Statistics Department at Rice University (Houston, Texas).


Adaptive methods for time-modulated stars

05/20/2021  IISA-2021, University of Illinois, Chicago. Invited session orgainized by Prof. Samiran Sinha (Texas A&M).

03/03/2020  Adaptive methods for time-modulated stars, CHASC Astro-Statistics , Center for Astrophysics, Harvard University.

02/18/2020  Astronomical Data-Science Workshop, Texas A&M University.


The Short-Run And Long-Run Components Of Financial Market Volatility

06/20/2019  3rd International Congress On Actuarial Science & Quantitative Finance (Manizales, Colombia). Invited session orgainized by Prof. Alexander Aue (UC Davis).


Semi-Parametric Factor Models For Non-Stationary Time Series

02/08/2019  Weekly Seminar organized by the Department of Statistics at Texas A&M. Inviting Professor: Mohsen Pourahmadi.

02/07/2019  Weekly Seminar organized by the Stevanovich Center for Financial Mathematics, University of Chicago. Inviting Professor: Wei Biao Wu.

12/09/2016  9th International Conference on Computational And Methodological Statistics Computational and Mathematical Statistics (Sevilla, Spain). Invited session organized by Prof. Rainer Dahlhaus (Heidelberg, Germany).


Locally Stationary Latent factors

11/02/2015 Weekly seminars organized by the Department of Mathematics at UCSD. Inviting Professor: Dimitris Politis.

04/15/2015 Department of Statistics and Data Science, Yale University. Inviting Professor: Harry Zhou.



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